The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-01-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Rhode Island has II, 900 more women
than men.
Turbans in velvet or plush, trimmed
with fur, are worn by young girls.
Passementeries of steel and silver are
used to decorate rich black satin dresses.
Pushes with frise stripes of seal
brown and navy blue are among the new
goods.
An old lady of ninety living at Chats
worth, H., has just cut her third set of
teeth.
Silk stockings in moss green, hello
trope and yellow are largely imported
for evening wear.
Brown is one Of the most useful of the
seasons colors, and is seen in an endless
variety of shades.
Women in Japan no longer blacken
their teeth, and they now smile in all
their native comeliness.
There are $4,000 women on the pen
sion rolls as widows, dependents or rela-
tives of deceased soldiers.
Unique brocades, satins, gros grains,
tulle and gauze are the materials most
favored for evening dresses.
The old-fashioned black astrakhan
furs, in both the curly and long wavy-
fleeced varieties, are worn again.
Miss Hattie Crocker, of California,
daughter of the millionaire, maintains a
free kindergarten from her own purse.
Black lsces, imitation Chantilly and
real Spanish, are made up for evening
wear as much this winter as in the sum.
mer.
Corsages are trimmed, cut, and deco
rated in every style imaginable so that
it does not destroy the long wasted
effect.
Brown and green is favorable COM
bination. A pretty costume has a skirt
of Brown and green plush edged with
fur. The polonaise is of green cloth.
trimmed with heavy brown cord gimp.
Jet bead trimmings which have become
filled with dust may be- nicely cleaned
by washing with soap and water This,
of course, will not apply to jet passe-
menteries having a visible background
of silk.
Shaded feather bands from two to
three inches wide, in gray, brown and
green, with narrow edge of bright red
or yellow feathers, are used by French
modistes to trim elegant visiting and
dinner toilets.
Ornamental combs for the hair are in
creasing in size Sometimes as many as
four or five are worn at the same time.
Chased tortoise-shell is superseding the
small balls and carved designs which
have been so popular.
1t is said that Chicago ladies carry
square of leather, with face powder
rubbed into it, pinned in the centre of
their pocket handkerchiefs, which is
ready for immediate use whenever they
think that their loveliness requires it.
The Empress of Germany has present.
ed each officer of the Fourth Grenadier
Regiment of the Guards with splendid
sword in remembrance of the 18th of
October, when she celebrated her twen-
ty-fifth anniversary as chief of the regi.
ment.
Fishbone work is the latest English
fancy-work craze. The material con-
sists of bones from the heads Of the
whiting, turbot, sole, brill, haddock,
gurnet, herring and other fishes. These
are arranged in the form of ferns, flow
ers, leaves, etc, with pleasing effect.
Bonnets of velvet have inserted strips
of jet in open-work designs, which are
to be underaid with some contrasting
color. A pretty example is of black vel
vet, with lining of bright golden brown.
A stylishly made bow of golden. brown
ribbon and ball ornament of jet com
plete this charming bonnet.
A leading London maker is using the
hair of the wild boar as a substitute for
whalebone i'll corsets. Strands of the
hair are massed together until of the
desired thickness, and are then inserted
so closely together as to have the appear
ance of corduroy. They are said to be
very durable, but expensive.
Mrs. John Bigelow has been sending
to Queen Victoria volume of American
poems on her Majesty's accession, coro-
nation, and marriage. At the dateE
these events took place poems were pub
lished in American newspapers and mag
azines, and Mrs. Bigelow has devoted
much time to the collection of them.
The Queen sent her a graceful acknowl-
edgment.